Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easily legible traffic signs being desperately sought for use in the U.S. [Nov. 24] are already available. They are the standard international traffic signs used almost everywhere but in the U.S. They are clear, pictographic and attractive. Continued selfish refusal by the U.S.-which claims to want foreign tourists-to adopt the international system has been based on economic arguments concerning the cost of changeover...
...make the show worth seeing. Her name is Meg Meglathery, and she plays one of the weird sisters. She is marvelous. Tart as some of her own quince jam and so tiny that she is virtually two-dimensional, Miss Meglathery bustles self-containedly about the stage amid heavy traffic of corpses, cops, criminals, and intended victims. Her voice is crystal clear, her demeanor is perfect and her timing is unfailingly accurate...
Some of the "guinea pigs" sat passively. Others stumbled down the stairs and through the halls of Longfellow. One intrepid subject braved the traffic on Appian Way. Another made her way to Brigham's for lunch...
...knees holding up three fingers and peering at a foot that juts into the photograph. Or when the businessman who happens to have his foot stuck in the sidewalk says to himself, in Oral Roberts style, "Take up thy foot and WALK!", we see a "Walk" traffic signal against a skyscraper background. All of which is more clever than profound, but fun nonetheless...
...Because such costs are better suited to American pocketbooks, little change seems likely in existing travel patterns; last year 20,000 Americans visited Russia while only 3,000 Russians came to the U.S. But as a symbol of U.S.-Russian cooperation, the reciprocal flight should eventually stimulate two-way traffic on the bridges the U.S. is trying to build with Eastern Europe. Best guess is that the new service will be under way, barring some unforeseen spasm in U.S.-Soviet relations, by early spring...